Tips needed for dragging in browser

[mayhem_sci]

I have an HTC Hero. I assume it has the same browser as other android phones. I have found that in the browser, dragging becomes equivalent to scrolling on a desktop. But there are some online apps where dragging is used for other purposes, such as panning the map in google maps. But in the android browser, this cannot be done. Is there some way i can do dragging without ending up just scrolling around?